Digital Scrapbooking - Changing page sizes  Elements 4

I downloaded a "paper" from a disgital scrapbooking web site, to be used as a background for creating a digital scrapbook page. The paper was 12 X 12 in. Is there a way for me to convert it to a 8 X 11.5 in. in the Elements workplace? I tried to resize, but the "smallest" I could get it to go to was 8 X 8 in. Thanks.

Kathy,
You are going from a square layout to a rectangular layout. To do that,
you need to either crop off part of the image or to scale the horizontal and
vertical dimensions to different sizes. Which method you use will depend
somewhat on what your background image looks like.
The first thing you should do is set your image resolution using the
"Image>Resize>Image Resize..." command from the menu. When you use that
command, you'll see a section in the middle labeled "Document Size" and it
contains the width, height, and resolution of the image.
I assume you are going to print the page. For that, the resolution needs to
be set to something in the range of 200 to 300 pixel per inch for an inkjet
printer (larger prints can use a lower number, you want 8.5x11 so I would
use 300 personally). Your background may already be at 300. I'm not a
scrapebooker, so I went to a few sites and looked at a few backgrounds. The
ones I saw were all 3600x3600 pixels and 300 pixels/inch which would
correspond to 12x12 inches. I don't know if that's a de facto standard or
not. But, if it is, you may already be at 300 and don't need to change it.
If you need to change the resolution, uncheck the "Resample Image" checkbox
and then type in the new resolution.
Ok, you're now at 300 pixels per inch and your document dimensions are still
12 inchs by 12 inches.
There are several ways you can change the dimensions.
An easy way, if your image doesn't contain any elements that would suffer
from distortion is to scale the horizontal and vertical dimensions
independently. You should still be in the Image Resize dialog box.
Uncheck the "Constrain Proportions" checkbox and Check the "Resample Image"
check box. Now, type 8.5 in the width field and 11 in the height field.
Click on OK to keep the changes and exit the Image Resize dialog box. You
will now have an 8.5x11 inch image at 300 ppi.
If the background has elements that you don't want to distort, follow the
same procedure but type in 11 in both the height and width field. This will
make an 11 inch square image at 300 ppi which you can then crop to 8.5 x11
inches.
Select the crop tool from the tool bar. In the options bar, set width to
8.5 inches and height to 11 inches. Do not type anything in the resolution
field, leave that blank. Now, move the cursor to the top left corner of the
image, click and drag the cursor down and to the right until the cursor
reaches the bottom of the image. The crop area will be 8.5 x 11. If
necessary, click in the crop area and drag to reposition the location. Press
enter or click on the check in the options bar to crop the image.
Save the background image as new file and don't save over the old one. You
want to keep your original image intact for future use.
Hope this helps,
Bob
P.S. I see Ward was faster than I was :-) Hi Ward!
Ward's method works just as well as mine. There are lots of ways to do
things in Elements.

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